Harm Lameris — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

The Role of Creaky Voice in Turn Taking and the Perception of Speaker Stance: Experiments Using Controllable TTS

Harm Lameris, Eva Szekely, Joakim Gustafson

COLING 2024main

Recent advancements in spontaneous text-to-speech (TTS) have enabled the realistic synthesis of creaky voice, a voice quality known for its diverse pragmatic and paralinguistic functions. In this study, we used synthesized creaky voice in perceptual tests, to explore how listeners without formal tra…

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2023

Prosody-Controllable Spontaneous TTS with Neural HMMS

Harm Lameris, Shivam Mehta, Gustav Eje Henter, Joakim Gustafson, Éva Székely

ICASSP 2023accepted

Spontaneous speech has many affective and pragmatic functions that are interesting and challenging to model in TTS. However, the presence of reduced articulation, fillers, repetitions, and other disfluencies in spontaneous speech make the text and acoustics less aligned than in read speech, which is…

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